Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Erotic Pleasure from Poser

drafter69 opened this issue on May 19, 2006 ยท 244 posts


AntoniaTiger posted Sun, 21 May 2006 at 4:04 AM

Quote - me, i admit to either cringing or laughing out loud when seeing 3D erotica. it's just so very, very bad. no way can that stuff turn me on, or even just aesthetically please me. i realize that 90% of everything is crap, and that includes porn, of course -- but i swear, when it comes to 3D erotica, that percentage goes up to 99.999%. probably because it's hard enough to strike a realistic pose to begin with (sorta ironic, considering the software is called "poser"), but getting two or more people to interact believably is on a whole new level of competency. and, while one can achieve non-touching poses alright, anything where flesh comes in contact with other flesh is problematic because digital mesh behaves nothing like real flesh. another problem is that there's more to believable intimacy than a realistic pose. expressions matter so very much. the vacant gaze of most portrait renders gets occasionally mistaken as deep soulfulness, but that simply won't fly in a supposedly intimate depiction of two people interacting passionately -- i know fake when i see it that clearly.

I'll stop there. because I think you're describing a general problem with Poser. And I think there are a couple of particularly obvious features: 1: Default Vicky You can get the basic Vicky, with limited morphs, for free. So there are huge numbers of pics with the same Vicky, maybe with free alternative textures. And the breast morphs, which can help show the difference between somebody standing and somebody laying on their back, are a paid-for extra. 2: All or Nothing Expressions Most Poser expression morphs, not just for Vicky, are a bit exaggerated when set to 1. Since people do use exaggerated facial expressions sometimes, you need that option, but too many people set every morph they use to the maximum. Anyway, if you check my gallery, I'm not using Vicky very much. Even this one uses Vicky 2, not the current one, with a lot of tweaking of the face morphs. And I sometimes wonder if the INJ-morph system discourages dial twiddling.